'Tomb Raider' won't be released on Wii U

Tomb Raider's upcoming franchise reboot will not be released for the Wii U, it has been confirmed.

Development of the game started "quite a while before Wii U was announced", explains Crystal Dynamics' Karl Stewart, adding that "it would not be right to try and port it across".

"When we started developing the game we made a conscious decision that it was all about building the game for a platform and making sure the game was specific to that platform," he revealed on the Crystal Habit Podcast.

"If we started building a game for the Wii U we would build it very differently and we would build it with unique functionality," he concluded.